Dear Paul,

<<the right for all working people, regardless of where they reside, to at least be able to aspire to home ownership>>

Want your own home? build one!

Why work for an employer or for the banks - work for yourself, use bricks, mortar and whatever other materials you find to build your own home.

It's only your government, Paul, which over the years made it practically impossible for people to realise their dream because it keeps, and increasingly so, dictating what, where and how are people allowed to build and call "home".

<<A hole in which the Australian voter will one day bury them.>>

I am an Australian voter, do you want my vote?

None of the issues discussed here would make a difference, but whichever is your party, all you need to get my vote is to allow me to ride a bicycle without having to wear a pot over my head. Do we have a deal?

Dear Paul,

There you go - we've got all the news from our
resident political expert - otb.

Once again this "rational" expert tells us - our Treasurer
is not being hypocritical by telling us the age of
entitlement is over - while grabbing every entitlement for himself
(including charging taxpayer's so much per day to live in
his wife's house while he's in Canberra). And it seems
that - pointing that
out is a sign of jealousy - on our part -
not hypocrisy on the Treasuer's part. Ah well, we all have our standards.

And, of course as always - its all the fault of the Labor Party -
(even though they're not in government - and unemployment is
rising). Why the Labor Party?
Well, that's easy. It's because those
arrogant, uninformed, ideology-driven, ego-centric Leftists
are -self
loathing marxists, anarchists, with their secondary agendas.
Unlike those humble, transparent, caring, righteous, hard-working,
Liberals, the good-for-Australia-Liberals - that are keeping us
informed of everything they're doing, and are creating a society
we can all be proud of. Why even travelling overseas - when we
say we're from Australia - we're looked at with admiration.

We should all count our blessings, especially the 30-somethings
who can't afford housing
and the 750,000 who are looking for work. And above all else we
should pay attention to Mr Hockey's advice of getting a good
job that pays good money.
Afterall he's done precisely that.

Fox,

You need to remove that eye patch. Here again,

It is the compartmentalised thinking and slavish adherence to ideology that prevents leftists from acknowledging the obvious: that demand from continued large scale immigration forces up housing prices.

<To give our crystal ball a solid foundation, we asked CoreLogic RP Data for a statistical snapshot of prices and sales in all capital cities in February 2010. We also asked for comparative sale numbers and median sale prices from February 2015.

Hopefully, this five-year snapshot will reveal trends that help us forecast what lies ahead for Australia’s capital city housing markets.

[tables omitted]
According to Cameron Kusher, CoreLogic RP Data’s Senior Research Analyst, “the standout message” is that Sydney, and to a lesser degree Melbourne, has been the star performer over the past five years.
..
“Well the reason we have seen such strong growth in Sydney and not in other markets is more because of overseas migration to Sydney, which has been fairly strong because of its job opportunities, because New South Wales’s migration away has been low since 2010 and also because there’s a shortfall in housing.>
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Fox, it is the massive immigration to diversify Australia that you support that is the root cause of the housing demand causing higher house prices.

On top of that, young Aussie working couples are burdened with higher taxes, council rates and user pays to provide infrastructure, welfare, Medicare and the costs of a whole heap of multicultural services and lobbyists swinging from teh taxpayers teat.

As a result, young working, tax paying Aussie couples cannot afford the housing and children they want.

Your solution and that of the lunar Greens is bring in even more migrants, not skilled migrants, but to take the flood, the teeming millions from undeveloped, largely totalitarian countries. The ethnic lobby has demanded an increase of 50,000 more migrants to ramp it up to 250,000.

Who pays Fox? You might consult with millionaire land holder Paul1405,Esq., on that and get back on it.

Australia is an old, dry continent. At approximately 30 million people we then can no longer export food as all that Australia produces will be needed for its own population. Sprawling cities are taking up the areas with good soil and adequate rainfall. Much of the rest of Australia is unsuitable for both agriculture and pastoralism. The population in the rest of the world is also increasing so we may not be able to import food. Most of Australia is unsuitable for agriculture. According to Professor John Woinarski of Charlles Darwin University: "In parts of the Northern Territory pastoralism resembles a form of strip mining, exporting soil nutrients from some of the poorest soils in Australia."

Climate change will cause reduced irrigation in the Murray-Darling basin and marginal land becoming arid.It would make sense to avoid increasing Australia's population or even reducing it right now. We can still have immigration as long as it is less than the number leaving.

otb,

You are again wrong.
I have not supported massive immigration to Australia.

Kindly provide the evidence to substantiate your claims
that I have.

What I have suggested in a different discussion
was to increase our
intake of asylum seekers to 20,000.
But that's a different issue.

I happen to agree with Prof. Thor Hundloe who has stressed
that - humans have the intelligence, the tools, and the
natural resources to provide for a good, sustainable
life as long as there are not so many humans that we exceed the
globe's carrying capacity.

Again - check your facts before you make assumptions about
people and political parties. Sledging and stereotyping
others does you no credit.
And is no way to argue. It encourages counter-stereotyping
and negative reactions.

cont'd ...

All the evidence suggests that we must turn around population
growth and aim for a much smaller population than we have
today.